One man has died. Plus the u. S. And n. A. T. O. Formally end their war in afghanistan with a handover hello, robin adams at the doha sports desk. Action from the sydney to hobart yacht race plus. You could see the difference in the second half tsksnt football it was it wasnt football it was a struggle for life. That battle in about 45 minutes time. Hello. We begin in asia where a search and rescue operation is due to resume in the next couple of hours for a malaysian passenger jet. It disappeared over the java sea with 162 people on board. Air asia flight qz8501 left surabaya in indonesia at 5 20am local time. The destination was singapore. It lost contact with Ground Control 42 minutes after taib off. Before that takeoff. Before that the pilot asked to fly higher because of bad weather, but was told he couldnt. Veronica pedrosa reports from Changi Airport. From the air and sea an intense search for airasia qz8501. The airbus a320 was carrying 162 passengers and crew from the indonesi
Antiterror law signed two weeks ago. Bad luck or bad habits . A u. S. Study is changing the way we look at what causes cancer. But first a cargo vessel Holding Hundreds of migrants has been rescued off the coast of italy after being abandoned by its crew. Thats being towed now towards italys calabria region by a new force thats been enlisted to help migrants at sea. Thats second such incident off the coast of italy in aa a week. After italy rescued another un unskip erdskipperred ships. Victoria gatenby looks at why the number of migrants. Is croing thecrossing the immediate mediterranean in unsafe boats. Before continuing the journey overland to europe. The number of migrants head toward italy. 60,000 migrants arrived in the country in 2013. But last year that figure almost tripled to emotional more than 160,000. The u. N. Estimates 600 migrants died or went missing at sea trying to cross the immediate trainmediterranean. Okay, we can speak to joel millman now a spokesman from the Int
Plane was at sea. Search and rescue operationss are underway. Submitted flight plan route and was requesting deviation due to onroute weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while i. T. Was still under control of the Indonesian Air traffic control. The aircraft had undergone its last scheduled maintenance on the 16th of november 2014. Aviation analyst jerry surjatsin poor. From the satellite images the weather where it disappeared is nod not clear. Its pretty bad weather but not the worst we have seen. That justifies crew of the aircraft to ask for deviations. That could explain what the officials have said in terms of they asked for an unusual route. In aviation terms it merely means they asked for a slight deviation from their normal route due to weather. The other thing we heard the aircraft asked to change its altitude. Based on that scan information at the moment we can just say that we know that the weather did affect how they decided what to do with their fight b
Raises for many minimum wage workers. But millions more are being left behind. This is Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city im toibztonyharris. And we begin with the First Response of north koreas hacking of sony. Sanctions on the communist nation and the white house says more actions will come. Libby casey has more from the white house. Senior obama Officials Say this is the a first imposing sanctions on a country because of attacks on a country. Theyre taking this rare step because of the nature of the hack which they say was instructive and coercive and u. S. Officials are standing by the assertion that north korea was responsible for hacking Sony Pictures. They say that this is part of a larger plan to push back against the threat of cyberattacks. Now there are already sanctions in place on many north korean entities including the three targeted today can. Today. So this is symbolic in many ways. Here are the groups, one is the intelligence gathering arm of the north korean
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